Chair.



No. 655,224. Patented Aug. 7, 1900.

A. c. GREENE.

CHAIR.

(Application filed Da e. 18, 1899.) (NOIhdBL) 2 Sheets-Sheet Patented Aug. 7, I900. A. C. GREENE.

CHAIR (Application filed Dec. 18, 1899.)

(N0 Model.)

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ITNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED O. GREENE, OF SOUTHPORT, ENGLAND.

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srncrrron'rron forming part of Letters ratent No. 655,224, dated. August 7, 1eoo.

Application filed December 18J 1899. Serial No. 740,752. (No model.)

To Ml whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED CHARLES GREENE, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in Southport, in the county of Lancaster, England, (Whose post-office ad dress is 62 Belmont street, Southport, aforesaid,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chairs, (for which application has been made in England, No. 16,815, dated August 18, 1899,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a folding or other chair, stool, or the like in which the canvas or other material forming the seat is detachable from the frame. Hitherto in many cases the canvas or other suitable material has been permanently fixed to the chair or stool, so that itcould not be taken off without great difficulty and when removed The material A, forming the seat, and which will be herein referred to as canvas, is provided with round eyelets J, let into the ends of the canvas. These eyelets slip over hooks K, fixed underneath the rails B of the chair. To make the attachment more secure, a rod 70, preferably of metal, is passed through holes L in the sides of the chair I and through each of the hooks K, or against the pegs, if such are used instead of the hooks K. Metal disks M, Fig. 3, are provided to cover the holes L after the rod k is in place, thereby preventing said rod from slipping out.

Instead of having holes cut in the sides I of the chair bracketsor catches may be fixed to the sides thereof, which would look the rod in position. l

The arrangement shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 is somewhat similar except that the rod G rests against a curved metal strip N, fixed underneath the cross rail or bar B of the chair, and one of its ends fits into a socket 0, its other end being held by a sleeve P, which screws onto a stud Q, fixed to the frame of the chair. Obviously if the screw P be unscrewed from the stud it will free the rodG, which can then be withdrawn from the socket O. The end of the cloth or canvas with this construction is clamped between the metal strip N and the cross-bar B, and being brought around, as shown in Fig. 6, over the upper face of said cross-bar B it does not slip.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. The combination with a chair having of eyelets J let into the ends of the fabric;

hooks K fixed to the cross-rungs; and a rod adapted to pass through the hooks, substantially as described.

-2. The combination with a chair having cross-rungs and a fabric engaging said rungs, of eyelets J let into the ends of the fabric; hooks K fixed to the cross-rungs; a rod G adapted to pass through the hooks and through the side bars of the chair; and means for preventing endwise movement of the rod.

ALF. ocannun.

Witnesses:

G. G. DYMOND, h W. H. Bnnsron; 

